What do we know about the Poison Tower in Edron?

Question

When I'm in Edron and I see the mysterious Poison Tower I just wonder what do we actually know about it. It seems to be inaccessible but aside from that, are there any records about it? Maybe transcripts of what NPCs say, books that were written about it, articles that hint at anything, is there something more to this tower than just for looks?

Answer 1

There is no indications as such for Poison Tower in Edron being part of the Tibian lore. There might be some speculations which I will leave here, so maybe someone can get some extra ideas and investigate further.

Poison Tower was the idea of Knightmare which been confirmed by him in the interview with TibiaNews in the date: May 2004¹

"Some Ideas just don't work in the game at all and I am disapointed with the view, like the colossus infront of Kazordoon. Its realy hard to understand whats the concept of it, if you did not enter it and even then it needs a lot of imagination. Or the poison tower on Edron, it just did not look like I wanted it to look. Thats why I probabl never try my luck at a tibian sphinx as I planned to in the past ;o)"

Knightmare mentions that his inspirations comes from different sources: games, books, movies etc etc. Some of the elements are to add the "flavour" to the lore or created places. This suggests that Poison Tower was something which Knightmare seen, or read about in the past and decided would suit in region of Edron. As he mentions colossus along with Poison Tower- it seems that their purpose is to be seen and wonder about them- but not the enter the places (Knightmare confirmed that there is a key to colossus, but key is not with any of the players)².  Naturally, we can search on googles for Poison Tower and then we can discover following art pic which was inspired by Dungeons and Dragons- known Serpent Tower. The shape of the tower is different however there is similar concept of Snakes fuming the poison. Also DnD Serpent Tower was part of Empire of Scorching Sands so the Ankrahmun would be more expected for that tower. 

https://www.deviantart.com/waronmars/art/Poison-Tower-637328806

Then the picture gave me a thought- what if it is for protection against Orc's? We cannot ignore Ulderec's Rock being west from Edron and there is no invasions or whatsover which we could expect to happen. The orc raids are only in the cave south of Edron. ³ Going deeper- the Tower is invaded by Wyerns, and those monsters by the lore are creation of Shaman Orc's.⁴

It can be also opposite- tower was maybe the center of creating Wyerns, full of toxins which were used on flying reptiles to create them. Orc's abandon the tower, however, it still produces toxins which can affect or attract those reptiles. 

Additionally, There is a video from December 2021 where player Maxigash was exploring the places not accessible by players. Time on the video with the focus on Poison Tower 4:22- 4:54.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGQrdIUVvvs

On the video we can see that most of the things inside are left without any much of content (no books, no scripts on graves, no special items). There is no teleport to the Tower itself, but it is believed that it can be accessed somehow from the corridor (hero caves corridors) which is directly underneath. 

What interesting is about the tower- is the different number of skulls on the walls of the tower.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20111105153731/http://www.tibianews.net/component/content/article/83-interviews/682-interview-with-cipsoft-knightmare.html

3. https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Edron_Raids

4. https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Wyvern

Answer 2

Posting this just for fun, as my attempt to make some hidden code from the snake statues (some are on, some are off).

I didn't verified this for 100%, so if you have some time, you can try some more stuff with this. 
Yet somehow, the braille solution to this, and the fitment seems suspicious...

https://i.imgur.com/hXTynPq.png

Comments

<possible stretching of the theory) I took it for a spin with binary coding (green dots 1, blank 0) and ended with
1- I
2- U
3- D
4- K
5-?
D I K U? Do I know You? :D
Anyhow, it is interesting it has 5 levels- It is like for bonelords language - who can reads 5 books simultaneously (https://www.facebook.com/tibia/posts/no-wonder-it-is-so-difficult-to-decipher-their-language-if-bonelords-are-that-sm/10156582470602364/)- That possibly takes us to 66356 or, 65366- but this does not seem to be found in any of the books apart of separating"663" "56". or   "65" & "366"

Answer 3

There are always theories about the poison tower in Edron and as far as we know no player has managed to find out if there is anything related to the mission or even access it, in my research I found theories and videos showing its location, I will leave it here in the answer.

As with many mysteries in Tibia that still need an answer, I don't believe it is a bug or something that is just there to fill the map. I haven't found a book or article about it, a note on Tibia's fandom says: "Many found the strange Poison Tower on the way to Edron Dragon Lair. No one has discovered its purpose yet."

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